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April 6, 2014
Down to earth – finding a method in spring’s madness
(Originally published on April 2, 2014 in East Bay/South Coast Life.) Spring is finally working its way in (never mind last week’s snow). It has to be. The calendar says so. The redwing blackbirds have been back for weeks. The pussywillows are out and the maples have begun to look lightly dusted in fall colors. […]
March 30, 2014
Rain date
April showers arrived a little early and came with flash flood warnings. It rained somany bucketslast night intothis morning that Bristol streets became impassable rivers and my back garden is a pond now. And it’s still raining. I spend weekslooking forward to a daylike this. A dayofsuch wretched weatherthat it’s perfectly acceptable to stay in […]
March 23, 2014
Down to earth – when spring drags its feet … force it.
(Originally published March 19, 2014 in East Bay/South Coast Life) Forget what I said about savoring the last weeks of winter. I’m over it now and I know you are too. Spring can’t come fast enough. Sunshiny days in the 50s and 60s are just a wicked tease arriving as they still do between snow […]
March 15, 2014
Beeware the Ides of March
Part of me doesn’t mind that there isn’t much in bloom in my garden right now. As ready as I am for spring, I have to admire March for hosting winter’s last hurrah. (Don’t I?)March is supposed to give us plenty to complain bitterly about and make us ache more than ever for spring’s colors […]
March 7, 2014
The Philadelphia Flower Show
I didn’t take nearly enough pictures. Or any decent ones. But chalk it up to distraction since my day was bookended by appearances on the Gardener’s Studio stage (once for a container garden challenge and then later in the day for a Plantiful Propagation demonstration). And because the show itself is overwhelming and I know […]
